Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Western specialists observed that the implied threat of exile may be a form of blackmail. They believe that Soviet authorities are playing on the only thing that Solzhenitsyn fears-expulsion from his beloved country-in the hope of finally silencing him. "All my life is here," Solzhenitsyn has said, "the homeland-I listen only to its sadness. I write only about...
...just assessed the state of the Union. "Well, Chet, do you have an instant analysis?" "Yes, I do, David. I'd say it was the most magnificent, glorious, stirring speech since the Gettysburg Address. I think my biggest thrill came when he said, T want to make one thing perfectly clear.' I always get a thrill when I realize the President's going to make one thing perfectly clear...
...generally be found several ounces of wool twine or a nylon mesh cushion, the better to swell the structure to second-head proportions. Hanging down at strategic intervals (at the temples, around the ears, and down the back of the neck), are separate, curling tendrils of hair. The whole thing may look like the work of a bird who flunked nest building. Yet at $17.50 per neglect-job at Kenneth's Manhattan salon, the elegant lady can-and must-look exactly like a charwoman, or the Char, as the style is also called...
...have gone through a process of discovery, and each night we will present what we have discovered so far. Ideally, I would like to continue rehearsals for four more months, in order to condense Chekhov's play into something which is really the most intense essence of the thing, something which would only take an hour and a half at the most to perform. Much of what the audience will see is only a means to that end, but I hope that in a few places there are flashes of what we would like the final product...
...could say that this form of theatre is inherently involved with the Youth Movement and the "Aquarian Age." The total concentration of Grotowski's individual actors while becoming one with themselves and with their audiences is essentially a giving thing. The actors, by concentrating so completely on their own existence, end up by giving themselves to the observers...